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| Veteran of army psych ops shocked by the flawed teaching going on in universities |
| 2019-05-09 |
| Starts with his bio, click through for the whole thing. Share this far and wide. [AreoMagazine] My mission in Psychological Operations was to conduct detailed analysis of what drives a population towards certain behaviors, taking historical, cultural, psychological and other possible factors into account, in order to assist in the implementation of Information Operations. The goal was to find useful information that could assist our security force partners in combating terrorist organizations, countering radical ideologies and unifying citizens within the conflicted countries. Upon being medically retired from the Army in 2016 for PTSD‐including what is referred to now as moral injury‐I left Fort Bragg, North Carolina for the Midwest, to attend a major university. As a teenager, college had never been in my future, and, since I am fascinated by different cultures, I felt this was my opportunity to explore the experience that thousands of kids across the United States get every year. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy |
| #4 Noam Chumpsky said in 1998: "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum (stay within the Overton window) of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate." IMHO, people in the liberal arts and social sciences have shot themselves in both feet (Not so much in the hard sciences.) |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-05-09 18:20 |
| #3 A large part of my job was to study beliefs, and I know that they will not change with one discussion, nor through forced logic. They are cemented inside individuals, and can only change over long periods of time. Yeah, and after they've been brainwashed at our universities it's extremely difficult to talk to them. They freak out when confronted by facts that contradict the dogma that has been shoved down their throats in school. It's really scary. You can't beat them over the head with it. You just have to persist, gently, day in and day out. If I had known that this was being done I would have never forked over all that tuition money. They would be better off as plumbers, electricians or beauticians. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-05-09 10:35 |
| #2 Teaching nowdays is nothing more than brainwashing. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2019-05-09 09:34 |
| #1 Total blasphemy! He must be stoned immediately. I have studied culture across East and West Africa, and this is not the case. Black people across cultures are not the same, and white people across cultures are not the same. In order to produce these theories, small fractions of the population are surveyed, and then generalizations are made about their entire race. A small piece of life is being made to look as if it represents all of life. Believing this is no different from believing that social media represents real life. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-05-09 07:22 |